Full vector magnetic dating of some pyroclastic rocks ...

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Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana / 2017 / 577

BOL. SOC. GEOL. MEX. 2017VOL. 69 NO. 3P. 577 ‒ 590

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Se presentan los resultados de un estudio paleomagnético y de magnetismo de rocas realizado en rocas de flujos piroclásticos y algunos fragmentos de cerámica pre-Co-lombina asociados al complejo Volcánico de Colima. Con la finalidad de estimar la mineralogía magnética y determinar tanto la magnetización remanente característica, así como la intensidad absoluta, se realizó un conjunto de experimentos y mediciones magnéticas. Se reporta una edad absoluta determinada mediante el fechamiento mag-nético de dos erupciones volcánicas asociadas al volcán Colima (volcán de Fuego). Esta es la primera vez que el modelo de predicción de campo magnético SHADIF.14K, basado en el vector completo (declinación, inclinación y paleointensidad absoluta), es utilizado en depósitos de flujos piroclásticos intercalados con cerámicas. Los resultados obtenidos con-cuerdan con las edades radiométricas (C14) disponibles y constituyen una determinación más precisa de la edad del momento de en-friamiento de los flujos de lava.

Palabras clave: Volcán Colima, fechamiento arqueomagnético, flujos piroclásticos, cerámica prehispánica, Faja Volcánica Transmexicana.

ABSTRACT

A combined rock-magnetic and pa-leomagnetic researches were carried out on some pyroclastic rocks and pre-Columbian pottery fragments associated to the Colima Volcanic Complex. A full battery of magnet-ic measurements was performed in order to estimate magnetic mineral-ogy and to determine both the direc-tions and absolute intensities of the characteristic remanent magnetiza-tion. In this paper we report absolute age determination using magnetic dating for two volcanic eruptions associated to the Colima volcano (Volcán de Fuego). The geomag-netic field prediction model SHA.DIF.14K, based on full vector (dec-lination, inclination and absolute pa-leointensity), was used for first time in pyroclastic flows deposits and interca-lated potteries. The results obtained agree reasonably well with available radiometric (C14) data, them provide a more accurate age determination of the cooling moment for the lava flows.

Keywords: Magnetic dating, Colima volcano, Pyroclas-tic lava, pre-hispanic pottery, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

Manuscript received: Febraury 28, 2017Corrected manuscript received: May 16, 2017Manuscript accepted: May 25, 2017

Gerardo Cifuentes-NavaAvto [email protected] CervantesJuan MoralesLaboratorio Interinstitucional de Magnetismo Nat-ural and Servicio Arqueomagnético Nacional, Insti-tuto de Geofísica Unidad Michoacán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Campus Morelia, 58190, Morelia, México.

Gerardo Cifuentes-NavaPrograma de Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, s/n, 04510, Ciudad de México, México.

Héctor López-LoeraDivisión de Geociencias Aplicadas - IPICYT, Camino a la presa San José 2055, Lomas 4a sección, 78216, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., México.

Abel CortésCentro Universitario de Estudios e Investigaciones de Vulcanología, Universidad de Colima, Av. Gon-zalo de Sandoval # 444, Villas San Sebastián, C.P. 28045, Colima, México.

Leda Sánchez-BettucciUniversidad de la República, Observatorio Geofísico del Uruguay, Iguá 4225, Montevideo, Uruguay.

José Luis MacíasInstituto de Geofísica Unidad Michoacán, Univer-sidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Campus Morelia, 58190, Morelia, México.

José Rosas-ElgueraLaboratorio Interinstitucional de Magnetismo Natural, Sede - Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Juárez No. 976, Edificio de la Rectoría General, piso 11, Colonia Centro, 44100, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

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Full vector magnetic dating of some pyroclastic rocks associated to the Colima volcano, western Mexico

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1. Introduction

The Colima volcano (also known as Volcán de Fuego) is one of the most active volcanoes in Cen-tral and North America, it has been characterized by many violent episodes of eruptions and phre-atic explosions during the least 500 years. More than 50 eruptions have been documented and ~ 28 have formed small-volume blocks and ash flow deposits (Saucedo et al., 2010). During the same period, the Colima volcano (CV) has generated at least three Plinian eruptions, in 1690, 1818 and 1913 (Luhr and Carmichael, 1990; De la Cruz-Reyna, 1993; Saucedo et al., 2005, 2010) that have produced blocks and ash flow deposits, which maximum run outs is 15 km from the top of the volcano, them were originated by the collapse of an eruptive column (Saucedo et al., 2005, 2010). In 2015, Colima volcano begin again his activity with an explosive event that produced a 10.5 km long block, ash flow and lava flows (Capra et al., 2016), its continuous activity is being permanently moni-tored (Global Volcanism Program, 2013). Situated between Guadalajara and Colima cities, the CV presents an approximately N-S orientation and, together with Cántaro and Nevado de Colima vol-canoes?, compose the Colima Volcanic Complex (CVC). The CVC is located at the western part of Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Figure 1a). Most of the available K-Ar and C14 radiometric age determinations performed in these volcanoes belong either to Nevado or Cántaro volcanic ed-ifices (Luhr and Prestegaard, 1988; Robin et al., 1987; Komorowski et al., 1997; Macías et al., 2006; Cortés et al., 2005, 2010). Recently, Cortés (2015) reported 30 high quality radiometric dates carried out using 40Ar/39Ar systematic, which represents a major absolute age database for the CVC. This method, however, is only applicable for periods older than 50 ka and better precision is reached to date volcanic units > 100 ka. So far, the C14 dating technique has traditionally been the most widely used method to date eruptions (charcoal found in deposits or paleosoils) occurred during Holocene and late Pleistocene. However, it should be noted

that C14 dating is achieved on charcoal associated with organic matter charred by the hot pyroclastic flow deposits or lava flows (scarce) and buried pa-leosoils that provide maximum ages of the events. On the contrary, the archaeomagnetic dating method which now may be extend up to 14 ka al-lows to date, in certain circumstances, the age of the erupted materials (Pavón-Carrasco et al., 2011, 2014). In other words, the radiocarbon systematics may date organic material but not directly a rock, while the archaeomagnetic method permits to get the absolute age for the lava flow cooling moment.In this study we intended to magnetically date some well constrained pyroclastic flow deposits and lava flows associated to the CVC in order to contribute to the absolute chronology of volcanic eruptions through paleomagnetic and rock-mag-netic researches of rocks and pottery samples found into pyroclastic deposits. Although this novel dating methodology was already applied to Holocene lava flows (Pérez-Rodríguez et al., 2015; Böhnel et al., 2016; García-Quintana et al., 2016), this study is the first tentative to date pyroclastic deposits.

2. Location and Description of sites

Site San José del Carmen (SJC, Col 2 on Figure 1b) is located at 19°28.071’N and 103°44.204’W, with an altitude of 1350 m. This outcrop presents a relatively thick pyroclastic flow deposit composed of embedded blocks into a yellow ash matrix (Fig-ure 1). Here, we sampled a single block of gray andesite and phaneritic texture, with plagioclase and pyroxenes in a glassy matrix. The outcrop di-rectly overlies the 3600-year-old debris avalanche deposit studied by Cortés et al. (2010). These au-thors considered this deposit as the result of an event caused by the collapse of the volcanic edifice which emplaced the debris avalanche deposit of Bezymianny type. The intrusion of a magmatic body that rise up through the main conduct inside the volcanic edifice causing its destabilization and subsequent collapse (Siebert et al., 1987). The de-

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Figure 1 Location map of Colima Volcanic Complex on the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic belt (a) and setting details of San José del

Carmen and San Marcos sites (b).

bris avalanche deposit is overlain by a ~ 5 m thick lahar deposit with abundant pottery shards and charcoal. A sample of this charcoal was dated at 1940 ± 90 years BP (Cortés et al., 2010). The lahar deposit underlies a ≥ 40 m lake deposits sequence, which implies the presence of a temporary lake between the emplacement of the debris avalanche

and the lahar deposition. The presence of pot-tery shards in the lahar reservoir suggests that human settlements in this region were affected by this catastrophic collapse of Colima volcano and their posterior flooding consequences. Ceramic fragments could belong to the first human groups (Capacha) settled in this region around 820 years

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BC (personal communication with the archaeolo-gist Andrés Saúl Alcántara, National Institute of Anthropology and History).In San Marcos (SM) town area (Col 3 on Figure 1b, 19° 27.334’N and 103° 30.780’W, altitude 1217 m), at 1.5 km to the NW of the village, on the way to Juan Barragán, a ~ 1.5 m thick yellow py-roclastic flow deposit composed by ash and pum-ice was sampled. The deposit contains abundant remnants of ceramics and charcoal fragments that were dated at 280 ± 65 years BP (Cortés, 2015). The age of these deposits and pottery contents in-dicates that this event was generated by a historical explosive eruption of the current Colima volcano building, which affected human settlements in the region.This deposit overlies on a 6 m thick pyroclastic flow deposit, consisting of black andesite sub-rounded clasts and some blocks of pumice with abundant hornblende phenocrysts which are sup-ported by a sandy matrix. In the basal part, the deposit contains abundant carbonaceous wood and a larger amount of slag blocks (diameters > 40 cm). In contrast, the upper part contains blocks with sizes ranging from 10 to 30 cm. These depos-its overlie also a debris avalanche deposit that was dated at circa 28000 years BP and was associated with the Paleofuego volcano activity (former edi-fice of Colima volcano), which was defined as the San Marcos debris avalanche deposit (Roverato et al., 2011). In order to estimate the magnetic anomalies as-sociated to the studied sites, we compiled a com-posite aeromagnetic map (Figure 2) for the whole CVC area (López-Loera et al., 2011). The area is characterized by magnetic anomalies of different amplitudes and wavelengths that are associated with the CVC edifices and intrusive structures. The aeromagnetic map comprises the coordinates from 19° 21’ to 19° 40’N and from 103° 28’ to 103° W covering an area of 1094 km2 (35.65 km x 30.68 km). The San José del Carmen site is located on the NE margin of a monopolar and semicir-cular shape anomaly that presents magnetization intensity in the order of 35 nT and an altitude

of 1349 m. The San Marcos site is located on an anomaly associated with an elongated low mag-netic zone in a NE-SW direction, which shows a magnetization intensity of -139 nT.

3. Laboratory Methods

Several rock-magnetic and paleomagnetic exper-iments were performed in order to estimate the magnetic mineralogy and to determine both the remanent magnetization characteristics and the absolute archeointensity of blocks and pottery samples.Continuous thermomagnetic curves up to 600° C were recorded using an AGICO – MFK1B Kap-pabridge while remanence measurements were performed with a JR6a spinner magnetometer. A LDA 3 alternating field demagnetizer up to 95 mT and a ASC TD48 dual chamber thermal de-magnetizer (provided with field coils) were used to isolate the primary remanent magnetization. The Thellier variant (Thellier and Thellier, 1959; Coe et al., 1978) for absolute paleointensity mea-surements was employed in this study. The mag-netic field laboratory was set to 45 µT, with a 0.5 µT precision. Thirteen temperature steps, start-ing from 150° C until 560° C, were distributed throughout the whole experiments and the control heatings (so-called pTRM checks) them were per-formed after every second temperature steps. In case of the pottery samples, they were divided into six fragments and oriented in salt pellets with six different positions ±X, ±Y, ± Z to reduce the mag-netic anisotropy effect (Morales et al., 2009, 2012). Cooling rate experiments were performed follow-ing a modified procedure described by Chauvin et al. (2000) (i.e. Morales et al., 2009). Three consecu-tive cooling velocities (fast, slow, fast), at the high-est temperature were used to estimate the cooling rate effect, and to correct the absolute (raw) inten-sity values. The duration of slow (natural) cooling was about 7 h.

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Figure 2 Magnetic anomaly distribution map along the Colima Volcano showing magnetic structures around the studied sites.

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4. Main results and concluding remarks

4.1. SAN JOSÉ DEL CARMEN SITE

The continuous thermomagnetic curve recorded for this site (Figure 3a) indicates that there was an almost pure magnetite or some extreme member of titanomagnetite with very low titanium con-tent inasmuch as the Curie temperature (deter-mined using the method of Prévot et al., 1983) is close to 565° C. The heating and cooling curves are reasonably reversible, especially between 350 and 570° C. No confirmed evidence of a second ferromagnetic phase was detected. In contrast, magnetic cleaning experiments evidenced a very strong secondary component, probably due to a lightning effect, which could be removed applying 30 mT peak alternating field. The remanent mag-netization characteristics were defined between 35 and 90 mT (Figure 3b). The magnetic treatment using the alternating field proved to be efficient and able to remove almost completely the over-printed remanent magnetization considering the paleomagnetic directions are quite well defined (Figure 3c). The mean characteristic paleodirec-tion is supported by 7 of 9 collected cores; Inc= 39.6° (inclination), Dec= 350.7° (declination),

with precision parameters a95= 2.2° and k= 633 (Table 1B). Due to the presence of strong second-ary magnetization, absolute paleointensity experi-ments are meaningless.

4.2. SAN MARCOS SITE

The magnetic mineralogy of SM blocks is very complex as a result of two ferromagnetic phases that were detected during heating phase, in con-trast only magnetite seems to be present on the cooling curve. The low temperature phase with a Curie point about 320° C may correspond to tita-nomaghemites (Figure 4a) which are characterized by a major thermal instability. Seven samples were subjected to alternating field demagnetization pro-cedure. The samples basically show univectorial remanent magnetization although they were ac-companied with small viscous overprint from 10 to 15 mT. Only 60 % of magnetization was removed after applying 95 peak alternating field (Figure 4b) which corroborate that the remanence is domi-nated by small pseudo-single-domain grains. The mean direction of the characteristic site support-ed by 6 samples is Inc= 55.1° and Dec= 229.4°, with precision parameters a95= 2.1° and k= 1039 (Figure 4c and Table 1A). It is obvious that this

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direction has no geomagnetic significance and should be attributed to the block moving after the emplacement of the pyroclastic flows during the cooling process. More of three magnetic phases may be present in the pottery sample (Figure 5a). According to the susceptibility vs. temperature plot, they are inter-calated in the SM pyroclastic flow deposit. Low-Ti titanomagnetite, magnetite, and probably also hematite, co-exist in this ceramic, overall showing a high reversibility and thus a relatively high ther-mal stability. Hematite seems to have very minor contribution in magnetizations, since the rema-

nence was almost completely removed at 95 mT alternating fields (Figure 5b). The viscous rema-nent magnetization is also present here but it was easily removed at 10 mT. The mean direction of the characteristic site is Inc= 27.3°, Dec= 4.4° with precision parameters a95=2.6° and k= 677 (Figure 5c).As archeointensity experiments were concerned, the Arai plots for the SM blocks present a well-marked concave-up behavior and no linearity was observed on the whole segment (Figure 6). Thus no positive determinations were obtained for this sin-gle block. In contrast, the pottery sample yielded/

Table 1. Paleodirection and paleointensity results for Colima volcanic units and oriented pottery fragment: A) Results of site and

fragment mean paleodirections for Colima volcanic units and oriented pottery fragment. Site: Names of the sample (SJC-San José del

Carmen, SM-San Marcos); n/N: n is the number of samples used in mean calculation while N refers to the total number of samples per

site; Inc and Dec: mean inclination and declination; k and a95: precision parameter and 95 % confidence angle.

B) paleointensity results at sample level. n: the number of heating steps used for the intensity determination; Tmin

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interval of intensity determination; B(corr): paleointensity value corrected for cooling rate effect; is the angle between the direction

of ChRM and that one of the composite magnetization equal to NRM(T) if CRM(T) is zero. It was obtained from the orthogonal plots

derived from the Thellier paleointensity experiments; f: the fraction of NRM used for intensity determination; g: the gap factor; Q: the

quality factor as defined by Coe et al. (1978).

Site n/N Inc (°) Dec (°) a95 (°) K

SJC Lava 7/8 39.6 350.7 2.2 633

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Pottery 99C067A 10 200-540 46.9 2.8 3.7 0.76 0.81 14.699C068A 9 250-540 48.4 3.4 3.8 0.73 0.8 11.499C068B 10 200-540 53.3 3.6 5.1 0.69 0.77 8.699C070A 10 200-540 51.6. 3.3 2.9 0.73 0.79 14.199C071A 9 250-540 50.8 3.6 4.2 0.74 0.81 10.6

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Figure 5 Summary of rock-magnetic and paleomagnetic experiments for oriented pottery samples intercalated into San Marcos

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shows a very high technical quality determination. These specimens exhibited almost linear behavior in both the Arai and associated Zijderveld plots while the control heatings were also positive (with-in the 10 %). Small secondary viscous components may be present but easily removed at first tem-perature stages, between 250° C and 300° C. The

quality parameters (Coe et al., 1978) match the commonly adopted criteria and the SCAT param-eter was accomplished (Shaar and Tauxe, 2013). All analyzed samples show reliable absolute inten-sity determinations (Table 1B). For these samples, the NRM (Natural Remanent Magnetization) frac-tion f was used to determinate the ranges between

Figure 6 Examples of NRM-TRM curves also known as Arai plots and associated orthogonal vector plots for San Marcos lava flow block

and ceramic fragment (see text for more details).

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0.69 and 0.93 and the quality factor q from 8.6 to 18.9; were generally greater than 10. The angle between the direction of ChRM (characteristic re-manent magnetization) and that one of the com-posite magnetization equal to NRM(T) if CRM(T) (CRM refers to chemical remament magnetiza-tion), obtained from the orthogonal plots derived from the Thellier paleointensity experiments, was found always below 5 degrees. The cooling rate correction slightly reduced the standard deviation of the mean intensities. The individual archae-ointensity values obtained in this study ranged from 46.9 to 53.3 µT. The mean archeointensity obtained from five specimens was 50.3 (2.3) µT, which is slightly higher than the present day geo-magnetic field strength for the Colima area.

4.3. MAGNETIC DATING

The SHA.DIF.14K, global geomagnetic predic-tion model (Pavón-Carrasco et al., 2014), is now successfully used as reliable dating tool mainly for archaeomagnetic material (Morales et al., 2016, Terán-Guerrero et al., 2016). Furthermore, re-cent researches proved its usefulness to precisely date several volcanic rocks along the Trans-Mex-ican Volcanic Belt formed during the Holocene (Pérez-Rodríguez et al., 2015; Böhnel et al., 2016; García-Quintana et al., 2016). For the case of blocks contained in pyroclastic flow deposits pro-duced by Colima volcano, a successful absolute age determination was achieved for two sites (Fig-ure 7 and 8). At the SJC site, the block generates two possible time intervals that are between 1776

Figure 7 Magnetic dating of San José del Carmen lava block using Matlab tool of Pavón-Carrasco et al. (2014) based on declination

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– 1634 BC and 1143 – 1236 AD. The first interval, however, determined on the basis of the magnetic inclination and declination, seems to be the most appropriate age for the deposit because it correlat-ed within the uncertainties range with the previ-ous radiocarbon date of the site. Thus, an interval between 1776 – 1634 BC is considered as the best estimate for the emplacement time at the SJC pyroclastic flow deposit. The magnetic dating of the SM site is supported by full geomagnetic vec-tor (directions and intensity) parameters retrieved from the pottery fragment incorporated by the pyroclastic flow deposit. A unique time interval going from 1548 to 1591 AD is the most proba-ble age estimation for the eruption. Therefore, the result obtained is in reasonably good agreement with the available radiometric dating.

5. Conclusion

The application of the archaeomagnetic dating method, using the SHA.DIF.14K model for py-roclastic flow deposit produced by Colima volca-no, shows positive results due to the obtained ages were in reasonably good agreement with the avail-able radiometric dates. It is worth noting that the ages obtained by the C14 method represent the age during which the organic matter was charred and later incorporated within the soil formation and it does not necessarily correspond to the age of the rock studied. Instead, the age obtained here using the archaeomagnetic method corresponds to the precisely moment of the emplacement for the pyroclastic flow and its posterior rock cooling. These processes and time elapsed between the py-roclastic flow emplacement and charcoal in the paleosoil could indicate the small difference ob-

Figure 8 Magnetic dating of San Marcos site lava block using Matlab tool of Pavón-Carrasco et al. (2014) based on declination,

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served between both ages. Therefore, the archaeo-magnetic dating method provides a more accurate age determination for both the cooling moment of the rock and the eruption timing. Due to the time span involved, the archaeomagnetic dating method has a significant advantage compared to the radiometric methods of K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar which are applied to older time span (> 50 ka).

6. Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful for the financial support provided by UNAM-PAPIIT IN101717 while some partial funds were provided by CONACYT n° 252149. MC is grateful for the financial support given by UNAM-DGAPA-PAPIIT IA106517.

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